Black BC: A History of the Black Experience at Boston College
A project by Black BC: A History of the Black Experience at Boston CollegeBlack BC Walking Tour is an interactive tour that allows online and mobile users to discover and explore black BC’s complex history on campus, in Boston, and in the nation. It mines anecdotal and informal resources as well as BC archives to commemorate the presence and contributions of black BC, and to document how this community participates in Boston’s black communities. The site is also a resource for BC students, faculty, staff, alums, and scholars who conduct research on race.
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Trinity Chapel (Newton Campus) –
11 April 2008 – For more than 25 years, Hubert Walters has directed Boston College’s Voices of Imani gospel choir (imani means “faith,” in Swahili) and served as a lecturer in music and African and African diaspora studies. On April 11, before a…
Devlin Hall –
September 1933 – Casper Augustus Ferguson became Boston College’s first African-American graduate on a hot, overcast afternoon on Alumni Field in June 1937. […] Ferguson commuted to Chestnut Hill by streetcar in the morning, and after the…
Thea Bowman Center –
23 October 1989 - AHANA House is renamed to Thea Bowman Center. During the dedication ceremony, Bowman calls on AHANA students to teach the BC community to include AHANA in the first stage of plans, not just the final stage, and challenges the white…
St. Ignatius Church –
10 June 2020 – Facing outward toward Commonwealth Avenue, a crowd of about 100 protesters, including Boston College students and Jesuits, covered the lawn of St. Ignatius Church on Sunday afternoon. At the demonstration, organized by students from…
Conte Forum – (1988 to the present)
20 March 1989: Jesse Jackson Announcment
Jesse Jackson will speak in Conte Forum on April 26 at 2:00pm, announced UGBC last week. UGBC received the written letter of confirmation from the National Rainbow Coalition last Friday, said UGBC…
Burns Library - The Robert Morris Collection – "From humble origins to the country's second African American lawyer"
Robert Morris rose from humble origins in Salem, Massachusetts to become a civil rights leader in Boston and the country’s second African American lawyer. He advocated for integrated schools, militias, and public spaces, and supported equal rights…